Percent Web Quest
Use this page to help navigate to each site in order to help answer the questions. Write your answers on the worksheet provided in class!
1) Go to http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/challenge_vol4.html?entry=85%25 and complete the 3 sets of conversions at the bottom of the page.
2) Using the website located at http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/vol4/meaning_percent.html, what is THEIR definition of percent:
3) What does sales tax mean according to this site http://www.aaamath.com/B/pct.htm?
4) Using the savings calculator located at http://www.math.com/students/calculators/source/compound.htm, if you had an initial balance of $3000, a yield of 7.5, and no monthly contribution, a) How much money would you have after 8 years? B) How much money would you have after 3 years?
a) _____________
b) _____________
5.) http://www.math.com/students/calculators/source/3percent.htm, find 50 is what percent of 200?
6) Using the website at http://www.math.com/school/subject1/lessons/S1U1L7GL.html#sm1 shade the exact blocks that 50% represents according the picture on this website.
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7) what are the two main types of problems when dealing with percents according to http://regentsprep.org/Regents/math/percent/Lpercent.htm?
7a)
7b)
8) On http://www.jamesbrennan.org/algebra/numbers/percents.htm look at the last example, write down the statement and what it translates to.
Statement:
Translation:
Answer: